Helping to arrange some domestic personnel to serve as "decoration supervisor" on the gambling boat, even if it is done with such a slight weight.

After Christmas, Gu Ao can take some time to go to the embassy and consulate and call back and explain the answer. The follow-up arrangements are not something he can ask about.

Of course, before this, Gu Ao would first spread the news that "the French seem to be making small moves" through Peterson and even William Clark's channels. The specific operational requirements are naturally to achieve "even Peterson and William Clark himself did not know that it was deliberately leaked by Gu Ao, and he thought that he had outstanding abilities, so he found out by himself."

I won't go into details of the operation.

After talking about the main business, Gu Ao and his party naturally had to stay in the castle of the Grimalti family to attend Christmas Eve dinner party.

The formal banquet at night is of course more grand and formal than the light meals that talk about business at noon, and the layout is much more refined.

The dishes on the table no longer pursue taste, but have become more traditional. There must be roasted goose and turkey for Christmas, but they are simply polished with truffle slices with planes, which has suddenly increased the style of other ordinary staple ingredients by several levels.

As for seafood such as mahogany clams and gooseneck barnacles, which are not suitable for shaving truffle slices, all the dishes are decorated with Astrakhan white sturgeon caviar.

The long-necked cups that hold Christmas fruit cocktails are all antique crystal cups from the 19th century. Some wines are covered with extremely thin gold foil. Of course, if guests don’t like it, they can also take one without gold foil.

In addition, as a decorative dessert for Christmas, the royal family prepared something similar to a gingerbread shell egg tart, except that the surface of the egg tart is covered with a special chocolate hard shell, decorated into a round Christmas reindeer face, and a bifurced antler made of chocolate. (Santa Claus used reindeer to pull the cart)

The nose of the reindeer is decorated with natural rubies. Before the guests want to eat it, a maid who specializes in managing this snack will take the deer nose off the chocolate deer face to prevent the guests from eating the rubies.

In a nutshell, this is a feast that requires imagination.

Perhaps because this year there are many businesses that need to coordinate relations with the French to deal with, the royal family members have all come to Bordeaux, and some French business people attended the dinner.

Gu Ao and Mina can take the opportunity to get to know more.

I don't know if it was because of the supply of satellite communication systems to the "Clermontso", Gu Ao met Patrick Russell, a senior who was studying for a graduate degree at Kissinger a few years ago, and his family.

As mentioned earlier, his father is Alcatel's major shareholder, and Alcatel is France's largest communications giant. The French military needs to improve satellite communication systems, strengthen electromagnetic compatibility and anti-interference, so naturally the first thing that comes to mind is Alcatel as a supplier. Alcatel's business is indeed spanning the civil and military fields.

This pattern was not surprising in the 1980s, because many communication technology giants at that time had unclear division between military and civilians. The American Pentagon sometimes also asked Motorola to solve the problem in communication upgrades.

"Mr. Russell, it's honor to know you." Gu Ao greeted the other party politely. According to Chinese habits, fathers who know classmates on such occasions should call themselves uncles, but since they are in Monaco places, they should follow the customs.

Mr. Russell, the old man seemed to admire Gu Ao very much and shook hands with him affectionately: "I have heard of your cooperation with Motorola, and it is indeed awesome for the younger generation. If you have the opportunity, you are welcome to cooperate with Alcatel."

The two sides said some scenes, and then left it aside, looking for the prey they wanted to make friends with.

Gu Ao soon met another French businessman, Airbus's Coo Robin Southville. The other party seemed to have had a good conversation with some members of the Monaco royal family, and persuaded the prince to change the upcoming A320 as a royal special plane next year, so he was in a good mood.

When I saw Gu Ao, I couldn't help but sell it to a rich man like Gu Ao and expressed my willingness to enter the Chinese civil aviation market. I couldn't just watch Boeing make money in China.

Gu Ao could only smile and decline, saying that this matter was not under his control. He had no influence in China in this field.

Robin Southville would not make things difficult for him, but just laughed and said that if it could lead to a connection, he would send Gu Ao a special plane.

Of course Gu Ao won't take it seriously.

...

Gu Ao talked and laughed calmly with the French rich people, so Mina would occasionally get out of the room and socialize with others alone.

When Gu Ao was entangled by Robin Southville, Princess Caroline, who had just finished talking to Robin Southville just a few minutes ago, naturally became empty.

Princess Caroline has been curious about Mina, a mixed-race man, since noon today. She felt that she had a lot of mysterious temperaments. At this moment, she took the opportunity to seize the opportunity and chat with Mina:

"chee, Miss Mina, I always feel that you have an elegance beyond your background, and you will not show any timidity when you interact with us equally. It's really... Goose girl. I've never seen such a mixed-race white man in China." (amazing)

Mina wore a half-shouldered trouser evening dress, and her figure curve really made all the women in the audience jealous. The age of twenty-two or three was the most dignified and pure time.

Faced with Caroline's curiousness and invisibly supporting the question, Mina was not in a hurry to show her feelings, but said elegantly: "Your Highness, Gu should have told you that he and I are classmates from the Diplomacy Academy, of course I am a lower level. I have been a diplomat for several years and a business counselor, so this is not surprising."

Princess Caroline asked casually: "Don't you have Lucian blood? Gu said, is it from your grandmother's generation? As far as I know, many of the people who fled Lucia to China in that era were descendants of nobles, and the poor didn't have to leave."

Mina showed a gloomy look of trying to get, as if she had remembered some sad past, and then controlled the expression to flash away, and said lightly: "I don't know this. When I was a child, my grandmother never talked about her childhood, and now she is no longer here."

While saying that, Mina pretended to hide her sadness and wiped the corners of her eyes, tucked her hair, and some jewelry on her hands and neck, and then she was inadvertently conspicuous. Just like the person who wears Constantine's watch, she always had to "inadvertently" look at the position of time, as if she was close and distant.

"The jewelry with a very classical shape is not a family tradition, right?" Princess Caroline asked intriguingly.

She was only interested in these things out of royal instinct.

"Classic? I thought this was called 'simple', or I bought it myself and looked good." Mina answered easily.

In fact, these simple-shaped things are of course not passed down by Mina's family, but are all things she got when she was doing business with General Lucia.

The Lucians always had many times of change in the times. Things that were not easy to see will flow out when doing business with foreigners. From the Khruv era to the Gowood era, there were always scattered and scattered ones. As long as foreign businessmen can get in touch, they can afford money.

However, the things Mina wore were carefully selected by her, and the executives under Gu Ao who had switched from luxury goods were passed by.

"Can you show me?" Princess Caroline smiled warmly, then took a ruby ​​bracelet from Mina.

"Dimic... Well, you should read Dimitri in Russian, a very common Russian name."

Princess Caroline couldn't tell the reason, so she easily sought Mina's advice and found a luxury goods merchant/jeweler in the circle who was attending the banquet tonight.

As we all know, all the sounds of "Cui/Qi" in English are pronounced "Terry", just like "Engtristing" will become "Intristing", and the big tongue sound will tremble for an extra tremor.

The jewelers that Princess Caroline made friends with were of course very high. After a while, she concluded: "Oh, dear Princess, if I did not read this era, style and workmanship, this should be a necklace around 1913, with a strong early design style of Chanel Lady's Chanel.

Combining the patterns and letters of this inner seal, it should be customized by Ms. Chanel for her fourth lover, the cousin of the last Tsar Nicholas II. Considering that Ms. Chanel was founded in 1910, I think the time of this work should be between 1910 and 1913. Of course, Ms. Chanel should only provide designs, and I can't see the specific craftsmen."

Princess Caroline turned her head and asked casually: "What does Grandmother have to do with Grand Duke Dimitri? Is it his illegitimate daughter? The grand duke himself was a married child, but they were all killed in 1920."

Mina sighed: "I said, I don't know anything. If there were such a tragic past, wouldn't it be better to let them be obliterated forever? After all, the Soviet Union is so powerful now."

Princess Caroline couldn't help laughing: "What's the matter? Bai Lu, who fled to our Western world, lived a good life and would not be in danger. The sphere of influence that the Russians could influence would not be expanded."

"Stop talking about this, I still have to do business with the Russians after all." Mina persuaded her.

Princess Caroline stopped.

Mina quickly used the excuse to go to the bathroom to clean up her emotions and calm down.

"I didn't expect that the jewelry appraisal experts known to the royal family of Monaco were indeed even better than those of the people of Xiangjiang. They even saw that it was a work by Ms. Chanel from 1910 to 1913. Damn, I originally chose this one to meet the guests, but because the female family of the Dimitri family was relatively innocent and had a good reputation. If they were mistakenly recognized, they would not insult the reputation of their elders."

Mina confessed in her heart when she looked at the makeup mirror.

Before she gilded herself, she had done historical investigations and knew that before the Romanov dynasty, the wives and ladies of the royal nobles had a very bad reputation.

Because Queen Feodorovna favored a charlatan named Raspikin in her later years, this bastard took the opportunity to infiltrate the palace. It is said that many noble ladies and wives in Moscow...

Only Prince Yusupov and Grand Duke Dimitri were the most innocent, because they were the ones who later conspired to kill the charlatan, among which Grand Duke Dimitri was even more innocent because Prince Yusupov used his own wife as bait to lure Raspikin. (After the charlatan was killed, his words were still hidden in the museum in Petersburg, soaked in Formalin, 29 cm long.)

At the beginning, Mina found only this level of historical materials, so she specially selected the items that could see the characteristics of the Grand Duke Dimitri family from the box of Russian jewelry she brought, which deliberately made people misunderstand.

But she did not find out that "Duke Dimitri is one of Chanel's lovers", nor did she find out that the jewelry she chose was in Chanel's style, but was seen by French jewelers (of course, Chanel is also one of the lovers of Dake Dimitri. For foreigners, they are not possessive and they play their own games)

It was a mess of money, but after it was released, it was difficult to bring the rhythm. It could only allow the gossipers to make up for it and guess it. In the end, the mastermind could not control what the rumors were like.

Mina couldn't tell what this Christmas was like, let's take a look.
Chapter completed!